If the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous moment of the Cold War, Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats may mark the most perilous moment to date of the post-Cold War period.

If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop it, these submarines would have been operating just off American shores.

1. This eyewitness account by Robert F. Kennedy, then the U.S. attorney general and adviser to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, emphasizes the human side of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The scholarly and journalistic literature on the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 is immense and continues to grow. Though the majority of those now on campuses or in newsrooms are too young ...

W.W. Norton; 464 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £25 O N OCTOBER 27TH 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it was only the purest luck that saved the world from nuclear catastrophe.

President Kennedy announces the Cuba blockade on Oct. 22, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 22, 1962, the Washington Post landed on my ...

And despite countless books, articles and reams of declassified documents, the origins, resolution and consequences of the crisis remain both contentious and murky.

These days, say James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, even their best graduate students in political science know little, if anything, about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. “It might as well be ...

Alice George's research reveals that, during the missile crisis, Americans matured, moving beyond the "duck and cover" mentality of the previous decade. They came to realize that their government ...

The Cuban missile crisis exhibit at the JFK museum in Boston, of course, celebrates Kennedy’s steely resolve and tactical flexibility, and pretty much ignores his critics on the left and right.

katharine whittemore 6 books on the Cuban Missile Crisis By Katharine Whittemore October 13, 2012, 6:00 p.m.